Yuval Yaron

Prof. Yaron is a graduate of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine. He is certified both in Ob/Gyn and Medical Genetics. For >25 years he has served as the Director of the Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis Unit at the Tel Aviv Medical Center. He is a Full Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Tel Aviv University and former Chairman of the Israeli Society of Medical Genetics. He is the Founder and Chairman of Controversies in Genetics (COGEN) World Congress. He is an Editorial Board member in Prenatal Diagnosis. Prof Dr Yaron has authored more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed Journals and dozens of chapters in textbooks. His current interest is the use of Exome and Genome Sequencing in prenatal diagnosis with particular interest in fetal brain anomalies. He has recently taken part in the drafting of the ISUOG Practice Guidelines on Prenatal Genomic Screening and Testing